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Progressive Party (RSA-SWM)

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The party's establishment was in reaction to what the various pre-merger groups described as a palace coup d'etat by the Conservative Party, after that party unexpectedly and undemocratically came to power when most of the National Party government was arrested on charges ranging from treason to corruption. The Progressive Party maintains to this day that the Conservative Party, which has ruled South Africa since 1995, illegally averted the democratization of South Africa, especially with reference to its declaration of nullity of the Constitution of 1993 which paved the way for a multiracial, inclusive South Africa. On that note, the Progressive Party maintains that the Conservative Party and the prevailing constitutional dispensation of South Africa is illegitimate. Over the years, many

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James Roberts MP

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The party's establishment was in reaction to what the various pre-merger groups described as a palace coup d'etat by the Conservative Party, after that party unexpectedly and undemocratically came to power when most of the National Party government was arrested on charges ranging from treason to corruption. The Progressive Party maintains to this day that the Conservative Party, which has ruled South Africa since 1995, illegally averted the democratization of South Africa, especially with reference to its declaration of nullity of the Constitution of 1993 which paved the way for a multiracial, inclusive South Africa. On that note, the Progressive Party maintains that the Conservative Party and the prevailing constitutional dispensation of South Africa is illegitimate. Over the years, many have argued that this would inevitably lead to the Progressive Party becoming a banned organization under South Africa's security legislation. However, due to the vast influence the party wields among the country's wealthy English elite, some regard the Progressives as safe in that regard. The Progressive Party has a modern liberal platform. It opposes the government program of Separate Development (known more commonly as "Apartheid") and believes in a democratic, unified, multiracial and multicultural South Africa. It thus opposes the legitimacy of the homelands (the various "independent" states which Parliament created by way of legislation for black ethnic groups) and campaigns for their reincorporation into "white" South Africa. Its domestic platform includes support for wide ranging civil liberties such as freedom of speech, association and worship and support for social welfare programs. It mostly favors a market-driven economy, however believes that "400 years of coercively-imposed white supremacy" has distorted any legitimate market outcomes and thus favors programs specifically designed to bring about economic equality between the racial groups.